Genesis 48

How would they prize this mercy, who are chained to a sick-bed? Secondly, God supplies us with provision (Genesis 48:15): The God who has fed me all my days. Mercy spreads our table, it carves us every bit of bread we eat; we never drink but in the golden cup of mercy.

Children are to show their reverence to their parents by submissive behavior, by uncovering the head, bending the knee. Joseph, though he were a great prince, and his father grown poor, yet he bowed to him, and behaved himself as humbly as if his father had been the prince, and…

The blessing itself stands in three things: 1. Jacob makes the sons of Joseph his own sons, adopting them and taking them into his family. And this is the meaning of those words in Genesis, where Jacob says as he is blessing them, Let my name be named upon them, and the name of…

Objection 1. Genesis 48:16: Let the angel that kept me bless your children. Here (say they) is a prayer made to angels.

Providence submitted to renders a hundredfold in this life (Matthew 19:29). God makes the income above hope (Genesis 48:11). And Israel said to Joseph, "I had not thought to see your face, and lo, God has shown me also your seed."

In this regard Enoch is said to walk with God (Genesis 5:24). Abraham and Isaac before God (Genesis 17:1; Genesis 48:15). And David (Psalm 116:9; Psalm 139 throughout).

Thirdly, to baptize in the name, etc. signifies to wash with water in token that the party baptized has the name of God named upon him, and that he is received into the household or family of God, as a child of God, a member of Christ, and the temple of the Holy Ghost. Thus Jaco…

This is often seen in the good that it brings us in a way that's above the thoughts and cares of our minds, or labor of our hands. I had not thought (said Jacob) to have seen your face; and lo, God has shewed me your seed also, Genesis 48:11 There is a frequent coincidency of Pr…

Can ye not with Jacob, call him, the God that fed you all your life long? Genesis 48:15 Surely he has given bread to them that fear him, and been ever mindful of his Covenant, Psalm 111:5 To display this Providence, we will consider it in the following particulars.

These gods must have civil worship. As in (Genesis 48:11), when Joseph came into the presence of Jacob his father, he bowed down to the ground; this was a civil worship, and a worship of duty from an inferior to a superior. And it is said of the brothers of Judah, (Genesis 49:8)…

Secondly, we must likewise show them reverence in our gestures, and comport ourselves with all lowliness and modesty before them, in bowing the body, and showing all other external signs of respect. So we find (Genesis 48:12) that Joseph, as highly exalted as he was in the court…

God has not only made me, but kept me, and provided for me day after day. The God which fed me all my lifetime, says Jacob (Genesis 48:15). I have been fed at his table, clothed at his cost, defended, kept, when long ago God might have struck me dead in my sins; and yet all this…

4. If we are children, then God will provide for us; a father will take care for his children; he gives them allowance, and lays up a portion (2 Corinthians 12:14), so does our heavenly Father. 1. He gives us our allowance (Genesis 48:15). The God which fed me all my life long t…

God sees not as man sees; we are taken with beauty and abilities; but these things do not avail with God. God lays his left hand on these, as Jacob did upon Manasseh (Genesis 48:14). God often passes by those who cast a greater splendor and luster in the world, and looks upon th…

For seeing there is no name under heaven by which men may be saved but by the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12; John 14:6), there is no other warrant for praying for such than that God would send them the gospel. And since Christ prayed for infants and blessed them — which is a praying…

1. Supplying mercy. God has been a bountiful benefactor, (Genesis 48:15). The God which fed me all my life long to this day.

A whole constellation of mercies, hath shined in our Hemisphere. 1 What Temporal favours have we received; every day we see a new tide of mercy coming in; the wings of mercy have covered us, the breast of mercy hath fed us, Genesis 48. 15. The God which hath fed me all my life l…

Does God give us a Christ, and will he deny us a crust? Genesis 48:15. The God who has fed me all my days: If God does not give us what we crave, he will give us what we need: the wicked are fed, who are dogs, Philippians 3:2. If a man feeds his dog, sure he will feed his servan…

All that nature can reach to us, is to see the nobility of my birth, the honest civility of my parents, etc., but faith sees his father was a Moabite, and his mother an Ammonite, born in sin, and this he lays hold on, and takes it home for his good, and walks in the sense thereo…